sweeping the world

Chapter 423

Of course, Huan Wen was digging a hole by throwing the pot of Xincai's fall and the state-zhang's capture to Xie Shi. The reason is that the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is now headed by the two clans of the Xie family and the Chu family. Maybe it can create a gap between the Xie family and the Chu family, and that would be a good thing for Han.

The capture of Xincai is not complete. The next step is for the Han army to use all its strength to sweep the surrounding areas. It will attack any local tycoon until the Han army in Nanyang County turns around and receives orders from King Fenggao. Huan Wen then summoned his generals again.

"The king ordered us to take over our army in Nanyang. After the round with the current headquarters, the army will go to the north to attack Chenliu County." Huan Wen had an uncontrollable excitement, and he didn't intend to hide it. He laughed and said: "Jie Shi Ben He will command nearly [-] troops to participate in the Battle of Puyang."

The Han army that captured Nanyang County was reorganized from Ran Min's army. When they set off, they had 2 troops. They lost some in the process of attacking Nanyang County, leaving [-] people to stay in Nanyang County, and the remaining [-] marched towards Xincai County. Join Huanwen Headquarters.

There were [-] Han army headquarters attacking the three counties. After the war broke out, the [-] Han army was basically used as a supervisory battle. Until Xincai City was captured, it only lost less than a thousand people.

"Uncle Yan will stay in the three counties." What Huan Wen said was an order from Liu Yan: "As the governor of the three counties, continue to clean up the local tycoons."

The 20 servants lost a lot during the battle of the three counties. Yuan Qiao will have 14 Han army headquarters, and the rest will be nearly 9 servants and more than [-] slaves. Continue to threaten the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Except for Yuan Qiao, the Xuzhou direction is based on Jiangdu as the main military station, which means that the long border is divided into two parts, and Yuan Qiao and Fu Wei suppress the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty from the northwest and northeast respectively.

The number of Eastern Jin regular troops that the Han army destroyed and captured in the three counties should be about 20, and the total number including the private soldiers and civil servants of the aristocratic families was [-].The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty only had a total of [-] regular troops, which was equivalent to a loss of almost one-sixth in the three counties. If the naval army was also lost, it would be even more.

In about four months, the Han army can be said to have taught the small Eastern Jin court a heavy lesson, but they don't know whether the small Eastern Jin court will retreat or choose to explode.

Huan Wen quickly waited for the troops from the direction of Nanyang. He asked the troops to stop and rest for three days, and also to get to know the generals who were originally from the Ran family of Qin, and then set off on the march.

The head of the state, Chu Po, and many captured people were arranged by Huan Wen to be escorted to Fenggao where Liu Yan was located. When they arrived in Fenggao, Liu Yan learned that Chu Po tried to commit suicide at least six times on the way without success.

Time has entered the end of spring, and what happened in the north of the Yangtze River was reported to the south of the Yangtze River. Since most of the information was heard by the people, it can be said that most of the information was written. Also into the establishment was eliminated.

There are rumors that the queen Chu Suanzi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty fainted in the court after hearing the news. The little emperor who was less than two years old in her arms fell to the ground and burst into tears, which caused the ongoing court meeting. It's a mess.

The officials of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty went to Zhongshujian, Hushi General, Lushang Shushi, and they were granted the title of Du Xianghou...that is, another person who assists the country, He Chong.He also fainted at the court meeting, but when he woke up, he was seriously ill.

Chu Suanzi and He Chong were unable to govern together, and the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty fell into a standstill and chaos for a while. There was a lot of talk that the Han army would take advantage of the situation to cross the river to destroy the country. Xie Shang stood up in times of crisis.

Xie Shang's move was to try to reconcile with Yu Yi, and even asked Chu Suanzi, who was sick, to come forward. The small court also got an official post on Yu Yi's head. The problem was that Yu Yi resigned from the official post on the grounds of Dai Xiao.

Keeping filial piety and not being an official is a custom that has been passed down since the Western Han Dynasty. There are long and short ways to keep filial piety.

The Yu family was still being suppressed by those headed by the Xie family and the Chu family just a moment ago. Waiting for Chu Po to die, the situation of the small imperial court in the Eastern Jin Dynasty became extremely unfavorable. The Yu family has long ordered to fade out of officialdom.

Xie Shang couldn't ask for the support of the Yu clan. Later, he discovered that although the Yangtze River was under the control of the Han army, the Han army did not have the tendency to cross the south. They decided to build a deep defense in a long discussion. On the one hand, they sent a large number of soldiers When the missions went to various countries, they had to send someone to redeem the captured father-in-law Chu Po.

It was the common wish of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to redeem the patriarch Chu Po, not only because Chu Po was the father of the current empress and the grandfather of the little emperor, but mainly because the Xie family did not want to dominate, and the other clans and families were also afraid of it. Xie is the only one.

The reason why the Han army launched an attack on the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty north of the Yangtze River was not because the Jin army had a tendency to go north.Huan Wen led the army to capture the land of the three counties, and Nanyang County also recaptured it. What was left for the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was the protruding part of Jingzhou.

Xie Shang was more worried about whether the Han army would even eat the protruding part of Jingzhou. He ordered Yin Hao to lead the army to station in Shouchun, and to deploy the Huainan part with Shouchun as the center. At the same time, he ordered Wang Kan to lead the army to Jiangxia County. Out of the formation of strict defense.

Probably when Huan Wen led the army to the north, Yuan Qiao started his intimidation.

Yuan Qiao mainly put on a gesture of approaching Shouchun in a big way, as if he wanted to capture all the land south of the Yangtze River of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop.He led his army to within a hundred miles of Shouchun, and Sun Chuo arrived behind him.

What Sun Chuo brought was the young emperor Sima Dan... Uh, it should be said that Chu Suanzi, He Chong, Xie Shang and others were the real people. They agreed to write an imperial edict. There is no relationship between the seal of the Chuanguo Yuxi, and it is still a "white board edict".

The imperial edict is generally written by the emperor to the ministers. When it is "edict" alone, it can be understood as a letter of state endorsed by the emperor.

Of course Yuan Qiao knew Sun Chuo, and the two of them should be said to be very familiar with each other.When Yuan Qiao received Sun Chuo, there was nothing domineering, and there was absolutely nothing to criticize in terms of etiquette, but the specifications were far from meeting Sun Chuo's expectations, just because Yuan Qiao received Sun Chuo in a private way, not from the country and the country. .

Just as the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not recognize the existence of the Eastern Jin Dynasty after the founding of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty did not recognize the existence of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Officially, both sides added the word "pseudo" when referring to each other. So where did the diplomatic relations between countries come from? Talk about?

Of course, Sun Chuo's edict was not for Yuan Qiao, but for Liu Yan who was far away in Fenggao.Sun Chuo went to Yuan Qiao first because of his previous personal friendship, and hoped that Yuan Qiao would do his best to help neighbors and friends for the sake of friendship.

"That's why Qiao gave private reception." Yuan Qiao smiled very gently. He looked at Sun Chuo, who was kneeling and sitting opposite him, and continued: "The Hulu in the Central Plains are still alive. They shouldn't have killed each other. Why are there some? People just like to make trouble."

The expression on Sun Chuo's face was very embarrassing. He had many words to refute. The problem was that the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was now the weaker side.He was silent for a while before he said: "Uncle Yan led the army here to..."

"Following the king's orders, we will conquer those who refuse to obey." Yuan Qiao still had a smile on his face when he said this, and raised his head slightly: "Why did Xing Gong come here?"

It's really a good question to ask, otherwise Sun Chuo's face is really not good enough to explain why he came here abruptly.He saluted and said, "But I have something to ask from Uncle Yan."

Yuan Qiao was actually a modest gentleman in normal times, he responded silently and kept listening.

Sun Chuo soon started talking, but he didn't talk about Chu Suanzi and He Chong. He mainly mentioned that the people in the south of the Yangtze River were in dire straits, and that the people in Hui were in dire straits mainly because of the Han army's attacks. Finally, he expressed that the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was willing to cooperate with the Han Dynasty. Peaceful coexistence, I hope Yuan Qiao will speak kindly to Liu Yan, the king of Han, because of his birthplace from the south of the Yangtze River and his past friendship.

"Duke Xing..." Yuan Qiao said full of embarrassment: "The big man is fighting with Shijie Zhao, and he didn't want to go south. It's the court in the south who keeps being aggressive."

Sun Chuo didn't like to hear that.No matter how romantic a poet he was, he was not deaf or blind. Before, the Han army had repeatedly provoked the Jin army, first refusing to use the names of Qi and King Qi, and even issuing challenges from Zhengshuo, thinking that in the end it was the Han who provoked the troubles.

Differences in standpoints also exist subjectively. Sun Chuo just started but was cut off by Yuan Qiao.

"My king is not subduing his subordinates, nor is he rebelling!" The smile on Yuan Qiao's face disappeared, and he was extremely serious: "Qiao has a personal relationship with Xing Gong, but he cannot listen to such confusing remarks."

Sun Chuo scratched his neck at first, and then shrugged it off. After all, the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was really afraid of the Han army going south, so it wanted to be tough but couldn't really do it.

"What kind of king is my king, what is the name of the country, and what does it have to do with the southern court?" Yuan Qiao said this with confidence. Only those south of the Yangtze River know what kind of court it was, how many opportunities to recover the Central Plains were wasted, and how much they were holding each other back. Now my king wants to recover the Central Plains so that the Han family and Miao descendants will no longer be tyrannized by the Hulu However, the southern court has forgotten the blood feud, forgotten that there are thousands of compatriots whose lives would be worse than death, and it would be difficult to bury them with a piece of loess after death, and form an alliance with the Shijie Hu people?"

Sun Chuo was speechless. Although Liu Yuan, a Hun, supported the Western Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty inherited the Western Jin Dynasty. After Shijie Hulu replaced the country established by the Huns and became the overlord of the Central Plains, Shijie Zhao State did not Shao Nanzheng attacked the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Whether it was the territorial scramble or the decades of bloody battle between the two sides, it is really not an exaggeration to say that it was a blood feud.

Now we don’t talk about "country and country have no eternal friendship, only eternal interests", but talk about "hatred is hatred". In terms of values, it is really moral and moral for the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to become an ally with Shijie Zhao. The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also under great pressure, and there was no words to refute when someone mentioned it.

"Qiao is now my prince's servant, the governor of the three counties of the Han Dynasty." Yuan Qiao shook his head and said to Sun Chuo, "If Duke Xing came this time to ask Qiao to benefit the southern court, please don't mention it again."

Sun Chuo was very uncomfortable because he was a son of a noble family, so he knew the rules of the noble family, that is, after the division of the family, everyone should follow their own orders. When he didn't mention it at the beginning, he felt that he was embarrassing others, but he was only required to Give it a try, why didn't Xie An, Huan Wen and other people from the south also come from the Han Dynasty, why didn't Xie Shang and Huan Yun (Huan Wen brothers) write a letter or send someone to talk to Xiang?
Sun Chuo left with disappointment. He took the route of Qiao County and passed through Liang County, Gaoping County, Rencheng County, and Lu County before entering Taishan County.

Along the way, Sun Chuo, the envoy from the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, saw a lot of things. The Han army vigorously purged local powerful people. There were traces of the post-war war everywhere, not least of which was the Han army going back and forth.

Sun Chuo, who arrived in Fenggao, immediately asked to see Liu Yan, but the request was mentioned but there was no follow-up.

The envoys gathered in Fenggao were not limited to the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. There were also envoys from Zhang's Liang State, Li's Cheng Han, Tuoba Dai State, Goguryeo, Baekje...even the Murong Yan State.

The Han Dynasty destroyed and forced to surrender too many troops within a year and a half, and the momentum was even greater than before. In particular, the Han army claimed to have wiped out [-] Jin troops in the south, and it really captured the Jin territory except Jingzhou, Puyang The battle in the county does not seem to be at a disadvantage.If the country appears to be strong, then all countries must take action.

"Isn't the Yan army attacking Han's territory in Liaodong?" Yuan Qiao was surprised when he heard that the envoys of the Murong Yan Kingdom headed by Liu Xiang (Murong Hao's long history) were in Fenggao: "Why are they here?"

The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has formed an alliance with Shijie Zhao State and Murong Yan State. The three parties have permanent envoys on each other's side. There will be delays in the transmission of news, but it is not difficult to know what happened among the three parties.

Murong Yan State dispatched 6 people to attack the territory of the Han State in Liaodong. The war broke out from Pingguo (southwest of modern Gai County), and it took three months of fighting before the front moved less than ten miles to the southwest. The reality is that Murong Yan The army was blocked by the Han army.

The battle in Liaodong did not appear to be intense. The main reason was that Murong Yan State launched its second conquest against Goguryeo. serious.

Of course, the dowry troop of Tuobaxiu was the one that was harassing Murong Yan country. Since the relationship between the tens of thousands of people could not fight any tough battles, it could only be harassment. It really made the relationship between Murong Yan country and Tuoba Dai country even worse.

There was something even more surprising to Sun Chuo later, that is, the envoys from the Shijie State of Zhao also came here on the fourth day after they arrived.

The chief envoy of Shijie's Zhao State envoy was the very famous eminent monk Fo Tucheng, and the deputy envoy was Ma Qiu.

After hearing the news, Sun Chuo felt much better. The previous sense of guilt for betraying his allies disappeared, and his mood became very good.He repeatedly asked for an audience but was rejected. Later, it is estimated that Wenqing suffered from another illness, so he left his business to play Taishan all day long...

(End of this chapter)